1. Managing a Web Server and Files
Chapter 7
Managing a Web Server and Files

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Chapter 7 Lessons
Chapter 7 Lessons
Perform website maintenance
Publish a website and transfer files
Check files out and in
Cloak files
Import and export a site definition
Evaluate web content for legal use
Present a website to a client
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Managing a Web Server and Files
Before publishing a site:
Test it to make sure the content is accurate and up to date
Use the Link Checker panel to check for broken links and orphaned files
View the web pages in at least two different browsers
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Managing a Web Server and Files
Tools You’ll Use
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Perform Website Maintenance
You should perform maintenance tasks frequently to make sure your website operates smoothly and remains “clean”.
You should run website maintenance tasks periodically to make sure the website is always error-free.
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Perform Website Maintenance
You can use the Assets panel to check the lists of images and colors in your website.
You should evaluate any non-websafe colors that could cause contrast problems.
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Several colors are listed
as non-websafe
Assets displaying websafe and non-websafe colors
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Perform Website Maintenance
You can use the Link Checker to make sure all internal links are working.
You can use the Reports command to generate website maintenance reports.
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Perform Website Maintenance
Report on list arrow
Scope of report choices
Reports dialog box
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Perform Website Maintenance
Design Notes are separate files in a website that contain additional information about a page or graphic file.
When Dreamweaver searches through code to look for errors it is called validating markups.
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Perform Website Maintenance
You should test your website using many different types and versions of browsers, platforms, and screen resolutions.
The Adobe BrowserLab is a useful tool for cross-browser and cross platform compatibility.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
A web server is a computer with software that enables it to host websites and is connected to the Internet with and IP address.
You can specify remote settings and define the site root folder when you first create a site.
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Servers tab
Add new Server button
Accessing the server settings in the Site Setup dialog box
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
Dreamweaver CS5 allows you to set up multiple servers.
The Secure FTP (SFTP) allows you to encrypt file transfers.
Once you set up a remote server, you can view the folder in the Files panel.
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15. Publish a Website and Transfer Files
User login and
password to
access remote
server
Server name
Connection method
FTP site location
Folder on FTP
site where site
will be published
Viewing remote server settings in the Add New Server dialog box
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
Once a remote site is set up, you will need to upload files from the local version of your site to the remote host.
You can upload all dependent files (such as graphics) for a selected page.
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Publish a Website and Transfer Files
Files that you have developed for a website can be downloaded or transferred from a remote site to a local site.
The Synchronize command compares the dates of the saved files and transfers only copies of files that have changed.
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18. Publish a Website and Transfer Files
Instructs Dreamweaver
to synchronize all files
in the site
Synchronize Files dialog box
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Check Files Out and In
When you use Dreamweaver’s Check Out feature it ensures that team members cannot overwrite each other’s pages.
If you use the Check Out feature with a document, it is important to use the Check In feature when you are finished.
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Check Out File(s) button
Check In button
Check Out File(s) and Check In buttons on the Files panel toolbar
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Check Files Out and In
To use the Check Out feature, you must enable it.
The Subversion control is a remote SVN (Apache Subversion) repository that contains historical versions of website files.
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Cloak Files
When you cloak a file you are marking it for exclusion from being uploaded.
You can cloak folders as well as files.
You can cloak particular types of files, such as .jpgs.
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23. Cloak Files Cloaked assets folder in the Files panel
Panel options button
Red slashes indicate folder and files in it are cloaked
Cloaked assets folder in the Files panel
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Import and Export a Site Definition
The site definition for a website contains important information about the site, including its URL and preferences.
The Export command creates a file with an .ste file extension.
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Import and Export a Site Definition
You can import the site definition file in order for you to be able to access the site.
Import Site dialog box
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
Intellectual property is a product resulting from human creativity.
Copyright protects the particular and tangible expression of an idea, not the idea itself.
Generally, copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
Trademarks protects an image, word, or slogan.
Symbol, or design used to identify goods or services.
Copyright attaches to work as soon as you create it; you do not have to register it with the U.S. Copyright Office.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
A copyright owner’s rights:
Reproduction
Creation of derivative works
Distribution to the public
Public performance
Public display
Public performance by audio transmissions
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
Fair use allows limited use of copyright-protected work.
Work that is no longer protected by copyright is in the public domain.
A licensing agreement is the permission given by a copyright holder to use their work.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
An example of a website’s “term of use” page
The Library of Congress website legal page
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
The permission process is specific to what you want to use.
The request should contain:
Your full name and address
A description of your intended use
A signature line for the copyright holder
A target date for when you would like a response from the copyright holder
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
When you post or publish a copyright, you are stating that the work is claimed by you.
You must give text excerpts in a document proper attributions by including references.
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
Guidelines for references must include:
The author’s name
The date of publication
The title of the document
The title of complete work or website
The URL
The date of access
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Evaluate Web Content for Legal Use
Guidelines for citations of images must include:
Name of the researching organization
Date of publication
Caption or description
Brief explanation of data type
Project name and retrieval information
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35. Present a Website to a Client
Adobe Flash Catalyst is a high-fidelity wireframe that is interactive and multidimensional to be used in a client presentation.
Adobe Flash Catalyst information on the Adobe website
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Present a Website to a Client
Base Camp is a web-based project collaboration tool that can be used when developing a website for a client.
You can present the final project by publishing the site to a server or by creating a PDF file of the site and sending it to the client.
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